Yes my mistake was looking at another record and published another. But I figured it out now i can publish 1:45 like i wanted. Having a moment there. Thank you Richard L. Buskirk On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:42 AM, <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I am having a date time comparison issue. I have statically set the values here. But the data is fed from the database, CaldTime is timestamp and since it will not allow me to have 2 timestamps in the same table I set the CallEnd varchar(12). Storing the data they seem to be the same for output. I checked hexadecimal and binary to look for obscurities. $sqldata['CaldTime'] = "2008-04-07 11:15:32"; $sqldata['CallEnd'] = "2008-04-07 11:17:17"; $time1 = strtotime("$sqldata[CaldTime]"); $time2 = strtotime("$sqldata[CallEnd]"); $interval = $time2 - $time1; echo $interval; +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Displays like 1.75:0 I am looking for a more precise time like 1:45 instead. Am I looking at this all wrong for time difference? hmm. different results for me w/ this code <?php $time1 = strtotime('2008-04-07 11:15:32'); $time2 = strtotime('2008-04-07 11:17:17'); echo "time1: $time1" . PHP_EOL; echo "time2: $time2" . PHP_EOL; $interval = $time2 - $time1; echo $interval . PHP_EOL; ?> time1: 1207588532 time2: 1207588637 105 -nathan